On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 18:07 -0500, cajun wrote: > Hi All, > > Here is my configuration running this as a home system not critical: > > Dell PowerEdge 1600SC with 18gb SCSI HD. Bought a 160gb EIDE hard drive > to add in. I can boot to the SCSI, which is where I have RH9 installed > and am using right now. The system see's the hard drive in CMOS and > also if I run Hardware Browser as Root, Linux sees it as hda. Here are > my questions since I have not done anything like this before and would > appreciate some pointers, Please!!! > > 1. Can I leave my SCSI as my boot drive and then use the EIDE drive as > what ever? > Yes, depending on BIOS. If it allows you to set scsi as the boot device then it should work well > 2. Since I am going to go to FC4 in the next couple of weeks, would it > be better to wait and just reinstall using the EIDE drive as the first > drive wipe out the SCSI and use it as needed? > That is your choice. Either way should work. > 3. If I can leave the SCSI as the first drive can I use fdisk to format > hda and then use mkfe2, partition it out and them mount it in /etc/fstab? > yes, fdisk to partition, mke2fs to format the partitions, mount as desired. > If someone could point me to a howto or some other reading that would > be great also. I have tried googling and searching the archives, but > have not ran across anything like this. > Use man on the commands I gave above (mount, fdisk, mke2fs ) to see the details of how they work. > Thanks for the help!!! > > Lee Perez > Still a newbie.... >
